Mr. Luchador
Member
It started off OK but then was rubbish. 1st one was good.
I've been enjoying rewatching all the Red Dwarfs currently on Netflix. Good times.
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Netflix |OT| Where Binge Watching is Encouraged
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It started off OK but then was rubbish. 1st one was good.
I've been enjoying rewatching all the Red Dwarfs currently on Netflix. Good times.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
Absolutely. Back in the day, I had this on Laserdisc - my roommate and I watched this over and over so many times-we could do a Criterion Collection commentary track for it. One of my favorite parts is when Arnold runs into a parking garage and immediately gets hit by a car-and the impact is so great-you can see his wallet fly out of his pants-then later he is paying for something and pulls out his wallet.
When he drops Sully off the cliff, that car that was on it's side, scraping along the pavement-he flips it over so he can drive it-all of a sudden, the car is as good as new.
LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET!
Great show, dude-and it gets even better!
Mr. Luchador
Member
Bennet is the campest macho bad guy in the history of action movies. He's awesome.
Maklershed
Member
Yep, I'm 7 or 8 episodes in now and it gets better and better all the time. I haven't been this hooked on a show since marathoning Breaking Bad.
Anyone have any good documentary recomandations for Netflix? Its all I watch on Netflix pretty much.
Having used Netflix for about 4 months the search engine is pretty shitty. Is there anyway I can scale down searches to specific preferences? Because I can't find it. I need to know the exact name of the documentary or movie, or Its incredibly hard to find one for my specific genre preference.
Having used Netflix for about 4 months the search engine is pretty shitty. Is there anyway I can scale down searches to specific preferences? Because I can't find it. I need to know the exact name of the documentary or movie, or Its incredibly hard to find one for my specific genre preference.
Maklershed
Member
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Pulling John
Resurrect Dead: Mystery of Toynbee Tiles
Senna
Religulous
Bowling for Columbine
The Yes Men Fix the World
for those with unblock-us or mexico netflix... Season 4 of Archer is up
Also noticed Allen Gregory is up, dunno if its new but I don't remember seeing it
LANNNNNAAAAA!!!
The most you could go are 'sub genres.'
As for good docs, you have probably seen most of these, but:
Dear Zachery
Religulous
Chasing Ice
Indie Game: The Movie
Happy
Life in a Day
Forks Over Knives
Anything from the Nova series
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside North Korea
Ken Burns: Baseball
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
Dark Days
Two Weeks in Hell
Side by Side
The Invisible War
Senna
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
okay this is gonna be a bit much but whatever...
The House I Live In
Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream
How to Survive a Plague
We Were Here
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
How to Die in Oregon
The Big One
The Queen of Versailles
Hot Coffee
Frontline: Bush's War
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Outrage
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Virtual JFK
Code of the West
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Flaw
Hoop Dreams
When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
That Guy...Who Was in That Thing
Tales From the Script
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Cocaine Cowboys
I just looked this up and holy shit, how have I never heard of it before? It sounds great.
Rockandrollclown
lookwhatyou'vedone
Twilight Zone seems to be missing seasons
Missing season 4 if I recall correctly. Amazon is missing them too. Only way I was able to watch them was on Hulu, commercials suck. Season 4 episodes are an hour long, which results in really dragged out episodes, worth checking out to see Dennis Hopper's episode "He's Alive". If it was cut down to 30 minutes it would possibly be one of the best Twilight Zone episodes.
SkyMasterson
Member
Yea and it sucks because I only want to pay for one haha.
I'm currently doing a free month trial with Hulu and it's not too bad.
The only reason I subscribed was for Monday Night Raw(I hate that they cut out like 40 minutes of the show) and it's pretty awesome just for that considering I didn't have cable at the time.
If Hulu could strike a deal with WWE that includes full episodes of old Raws and Smackdown, they would have all my money. I would pay up to $20 a month for that shit lol.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Really?
Last I saw, it was youtube quality artifacting & really low quality overall.
Crackle is still free right?
Hulu + Netflix + Amazon Prime does it for me. $8/ month for Netflix, $8 / month for Hulu, $79 / year for Prime.....solid. Less than $300 / year for my cable services, plus whatever I get a la carte from Amazon Instant.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Have you guys seen this Max thing they are going to roll out onto Netflix? At first I thought it looked fairly gimmicky but the video made it look at worst a more amusing way to browse for something to watch. I'd rather do that than spend 15 minutes shuffling through titles, which happens all to often to me.
Sweden has the best place for movies. It will blow your mind.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I believe Wall-E was on the U.S. Netflix a couple years back.
When the Disney deal kicks in, I'm sure a lot of these films will come to the US.
Yeah, you can program the PS3, or just use your router to do it for everything. I also see that UK Netflix has Dexter, homeland, and justified. Wonder why showtime blocks us Netflix. I don't see any other place for showtime stuff, they don't even have a hbo go like app.
Does the Swedish stuff have subs? I used the Brazil one and could not turn them off.
Jest Chillin
Member
Showtime does have an app. It's called "SHO Anytime." Usually the reason other countries have content that Netflix US doesn't have is due to broadcast laws that prevent foreign companies from owning channels, so those companies are forced to liscense the shows to native networks. Being liscensed to those networks allows Netflix to make deals with those networks to get the content but they can only supply it in those territories.
Yup. Works with anything, just have to set the device up first.
Probably talking out my ass, but maybe they don't have as large subscription base overseas?
Yeah, it does. A lot of the other markets you can't turn them off. I always watch with subtitles on, so it doesn't really bother me. But that does suck for anyone who hates it.
Edit- Jest Chillin makes way more sense than mine lol.
It's more a minor annoyance then anything. If they have a movie I want to watch I'll just suck it up lol.
That must be new, before they just had some shitty app that showed clips. Now that I look it up, it only works for 5 providers, and cox is not one of them. It has like 2 stars in the iOS App Store lol.
Jest Chillin
Member
I believe it is fairly new. I've only used it for like... 9 months maybe? It's a poor performing app on Android as well. You can get randomly logged out in the middle of shows and then will be unable to log back in for random periods of time. If you do have a cable provider that supports it and you want to catch up on currently running series though, it's worth it to deal with the issues. This is assuming, of course, that your own cable provider doesn't run it's own similar service. AT&T's Uverse, for example, has it's own website that does essentially the same thing but allows you to watch movies and shows from any premium channel you're subscribed to.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Well went to Crackle again & I can say their quality is as shit as ever.
4 solid bars along with the HD signal & the quality looks like the lowest settings on youtube.
Its on the Canadian Netflix.
BlackGhost
Banned
Pretty excited for Orange is the new Black tomorrow. All the original content I've seen has been pretty good so far. Only show I didn't finish was Hemlock Groves.
bean breath
Member
To be fair, I'm watching it on a 32" 720p/1080i tv. When I first start up a video, it's artifacted to hell then clears up a couple seconds later. Someone else here said it's 480p which I would agree with, definitely doesn't look as good as Netflix or Youtube. I honestly don't know why I've been using it exclusively lately, I guess it's the no ads and selection that makes it for me.
RedAssedApe
Banned
interesting...what device are you using to watch? my ps3 still shows adds and there were like 5 of them for a 30 minutes anime episode -_-
Forgot this was tomorrow, definitely watching it as soon as possible. Weeds had a shaky run but when it was on its game it was one of the better shows on TV.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Same I'm using an older Roku and not only are there more ads than there were in the past, but the content frequently never starts playing again afterwards, so I have to exit and resume.
bean breath
Member
360. There was an update I had to download when I opened the app a few days ago after not touching it for months. The only ad I've seen was after a movie, I can't remember if it was before or after the credits, probably after. Since then I've been watching an anime series, 3 episodes in and no ads. Then I went online to create an account and register my device to make a playlist/queue which I was certain would introduce ads but I'm now about 10 episodes in and still no ads, knock on wood.
BlackGhost
Banned
Yeah, some of weeds was really great. Still haven't finished it, kinda started losing interest in the last seasons. Think I only have a few eps to go. I loved the opening songs though .
RedAssedApe
Banned
Reviews of OITNB make it sound promising. Didn't look like my type of show from the trailers but I'll at least give it a shot. Gotta be better than Hemlock Grove right? heh
Succinct Verbosity
Member
Does anyone know if unblock us is worth it? I have just been changing my DNS on my playstation 3, but that keeps getting blocked.
I can't help but repeat this over and over, it is the best $5 you will spend in any given month.
It really is. It sucks that I have to add $5 to my ever-increasing steaming budget, but it opens you up to so many shows and movies. Canada has most of the shows Amazon locked up, the UK has some great British stuff, and Sweden is... well, heaven.
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
Member
I'll third this comment. You'll be amazed at all of the content.
I wasn't too excited about Lilyhammer. Watched the first episode... meh.. ok I guess. Steven van Zand is basically Silvio from The Sopranos, I couldn't see any difference.
You can think of it as Silvio Goes To Norway, if it helps....but it's a really fun show once you get into it, and you never feel lost with the foreign language or like their are too many subtitles either.
Canada:
30 Minutes or Less (Comedy)
Orange is the New Blac (TV, Comedy, Drama)
Miss Dial (Romantic, Comedy)
Saints and Soldiers (Drama, War)
Mexico:
The Bucket List (Drama, Comedy)
The Dilemma (Comedy)
Honey 2 (Drama, Romantic)
The Land Before Time (Animation, Family)
Quartet (Indie, Comedy)
Robocop (Action)
30 Minutes or Less (Comedy)
Orange is the New Blac (TV, Comedy, Drama)
Miss Dial (Romantic, Comedy)
Saints and Soldiers (Drama, War)
Mexico:
The Bucket List (Drama, Comedy)
The Dilemma (Comedy)
Honey 2 (Drama, Romantic)
The Land Before Time (Animation, Family)
Quartet (Indie, Comedy)
Robocop (Action)